Why don't Americans call for the resignation of George Bush after today's Iraq Study Group Report?

Answer 1

What good would that do? Bush would be out of office before impeachment proceedings could prevail.
As far as I'm concerned the Iraq Study Group is nothing more than pig swaddle. James Baker, his bipartisan associates, the Carlyle Group, and hundreds of "aids" have been paid millions of dollars to produce a useless, worthless, insipid report that fails to address the real reasons behind this stupid 'war'.
Baker, Hamilton and associates have wrapped all this up into a tidy little 'report' without once admitting that the entire 'war' is the result of three damning - and lame - reasons:
1) The Bush family has had a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein ever since the days of Desert Storm when George H.W. Bush failed to oust Hussein at that time;
2) The giant U.S. military-industrial complex needed another 'war' to boost its sagging profits. Right after World War II, those corporations realized how obscenely profitable 'war' could be. They bought up all the politicians, hired pricey lobbyists, and formed special interest groups to encourage and promote 'war' around the world. Thus, the U.S. was involved in the Korean Conflict; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Cold War; Vietnam; and Desert Storm, all so these huge corporations could amass huge profits, thanks to government excess, waste, incompetency, fraud, and futility;
3) Dick Cheney and his buddies at Exxon-Mobil want all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands, and will get it at any cost of human lives or property destruction.
If the U.S. really, truly expects to leave Iraq anytime soon, then WHY is the U.S. building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad, overlooking the offices of the 'new' Iraqi puppet government installed by the greedy Bush administration? Because the U.S. will maintain a presence in Iraq for decades, if not generations - until every drop of OIL is sucked from that nation's sands.
The Study Group Report proposed that 'combat' troops are withdrawn by 2008; it said nothing about maintaining a force similar to forces we still have stationed in Korea, Cuba, or Vietnam. Those forces will help maintain order and ensure that U.S. oil companies are not victims of Iraqi sabotage as they continue to feed America's dependence on cheap, easily-accessible foreign OIL.
The blood of 655,000 Iraqis and 2,800 U.S. soldiers is on the hands of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, the entire Bush administration, all 535 members of the most evil, contemptible, arrogant, incorrigible, incompetent, greedy, and corrupt Congress in U.S. history; as well as on every motorist who believes it's his 'right' to drive a $60,000 gas-guzzling SUV just because he can afford $3.00-a-gallon fuel.
The U.S. represents only 5% of the world's population, yet squanders 55% of the world's natural resources, including OIL, coal, natural gas, water, wood, plastic, asphalt, etc. - all because we believe it's our 'right' to live better and richer than those citizens in the rest of the world.
We are a gluttonous, disposable, selfish society - and we don't even understand the Sunni-Shiite culture clash that's been going on for 1,400 years (not even the federal government's 'war' leaders have a clue as to why there is civil strife in Iraq).
All we know is we want all that OIL.
Prediction: we'll invade Iran by the spring of 2007, for the very same reason we illegally invaded Iraq: cheap, easily-accessible OIL. -RKO-

Answer 2

Most will be displeased, but won't do anything about it. If he doesn't either start pulling out in late 2007, or have a much safer Iraq to show for this surge (hahahah -right) then the public will go apeshi* by then. Just my opinion. By the way, Hillary opposes the surge without a major strategy change, so that's not true, and some generals are for it and some are publically cool to the idea. It was actually put forward by lots of people, most recently by academic Donald Kagan and a retired general, so you can't say it was all the generals idea and that they support it. Some do, some don't.

Answer 3

If Bush was just starting a second 4 year term, the calls for Impeachment would be loud and clear. For all practical purposes, by the time hearings would be called, he would only have a year left in office.

One bright spot, any ordinary citizen may petition the government to begin impeachment proceedings. Come January, many Americans will take advantage of that opportunity.

Answer 4

The "Iraq Study Group Report" is based on the research of a group of private individuals, not a government-based study. The items or ideas in this report are suggestions only.
Only Congress, through an intensive investigation, can request the resignation of the President.

Answer 5

If bush resigned, then who takes his place...not

Answer 6

They should've done that a long time before now, and in the UK Blair should be held to account too.

Answer 7

Being oblivious to the people and being completely incompetent is not an impeachable offense.

Answer 8

Maybe you got a good idea there, but what do you think Chaney would do?

Answer 9

Hmmmm... that would result in President Cheney. Sure that's what you want?

Answer 10

Think of it: The VP would take over.
What a choice - yikes!